Tim Farron Blames Jeremy Corbyn For Austerity – Selective Amnesia?

Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron seems to be suffering from a case of selective amnesia. Following the Lib Dem gains in the English Local Council Elections, Farron tweeted blaming Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn for being the “enabler of crushing austerity”. Has he forgotten that when in government, his party thought a 5p bag charge was worth allowing tougher sanctions on benefit claimants?

There’s no doubt that the Liberal Democrats had an extremely good night in the recent Local Elections in England. It would be disingenuous to say otherwise. However, when celebrating their gains, their former leader thought it wise to accuse Jeremy Corbyn was enabling austerity.

How about: Jeremy Corbyn – enabler of crushing austerity and Tory Brexit enabler, or Jess Phillips – opposer of the above..?There, fixed it for you. Happy to help.

Desperate to get a win, the Lib Dems decided to trade the vulnerable to look good. Farron has no right to state Jeremy Corbyn enabled austerity.

The most glaring fact is that Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t even Labour Leader when most of the austerity reforms where brought in. Even if he was, if he doesn’t have the numbers to beat the government what can he do?

Lies Laid Bare

I remember facing up to the reality of the parliamentary arithmetic, taking responsibility and then spending 5 years preventing the Tories doing their worst. 4 years of the Tories on their own now and even you must surely acknowledge how much horror we prevented…

Farron then doubled down on his claim stating he spent “5 years preventing the Tories doing their worst.”

After he said this, I decided to take a look at the former leaders voting record on issues that would have affect the most vulnerable and, well he may want to retract his claim spent “5 years preventing the Tories doing their worst.”

Farron despite his claims, consistently voted to reduce housing benefit and didn’t think welfare claimants money should be increased in line with inflation.

Overall, Farron did get an utter rinsing after making this claim. However, it is just part of the bugger pattern of lies MPs tell.

It didn’t matter that there’s clear evidence disproving Farron and his claims. He knew this and ploughed on anyway. Being a MP some will assume he is telling the truth.

If MPs want to regain the public’s trust, they need to show that they are worthy of it. After this performance, because that what it was; a performance, Tim Farron has shown he isn’t worthy of it yet.

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